Essays on Religious Concepts

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The Impact of Martyrdoms in The Sikh Faith

2 pages / 908 words

Under the new rule of Jahangir in India, a Mughal ruler, the Sikhs began to feel oppressed. The new rule targeted the Sikhs and their leader at the time, Guru Arjan Dev Jee. This oppression was felt again with the ninth leader of the Sikhs,...

Faith

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The Concept and Description of Hell in The Iliad, a Poem by Homer

2 pages / 786 words

Hell has been described as a residence for souls after death has long been a topic of discussion and debate. This notion intrigues man. It is a concept that man cannot know about except through direct experience, which, once obtained, cannot be shared. Yet this...

Hell Iliad

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A Comparison of The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe and The Cat from Hell by Stephen King

2 pages / 826 words

Depicted in the acclaimed short story “The Black Cat” (1843) by master of macabre, Edgar Allan Poe and “The Cat From Hell” (1977) by contemporary horror brilliance, Stephen King is a composition of suspense strategies, which engenders fear and curiosity that allows authors to manipulate...

Hell Stephen King The Black Cat

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Faith as a Part of Healing

1 page / 316 words

Throughout the years, there have been many interpretations of supernatural healings offered by theologians, physicians, and psychologists. Some people assume that faith has always been a part of healing, which has led to varying meanings of supernatural healing in modern society. In response, researchers have...

Faith

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Youth and Mortality in Herman Melville’s "On The Slain Collegians"

3 pages / 1317 words

The winds of war strike all, and just as spring blossoms are blown from the trees falling white to the ground, young men are killed in their prime by war before they are able to bear the fruit of knowledge. Herman Melville observed the pre-war...

Book Review Immortality Youth

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Order and Rightness in The Thought of Anselm of Canterbury

7 pages / 2974 words

In a theological age conscious of the damage inflicted by sin upon human reason, Anselm of Canterbury emerges as one of its greatest champions. Though his maintenance of the primacy of faith never wavered, his project was one of using the tool of reason to...

Book Review God Justice

273

Analysis of The Theme of God in The Poetry of T. S. Eliot

4 pages / 1877 words

Among the fragmented layers and voices of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land there is a distinct cry for humanity to accept the comfort of a greater level of intelligence – God. This is dramatically reinforced in the lamenting howl of The Hollow Men. References...

God T.S. Eliot The Waste Land

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William Paley and The "Argument from Design"

2 pages / 989 words

William Paley begins his “Argument from Design” by enumerating key differences between two obviously dissimilar objects—a stone and a watch. For the sake of meaningful contrast, Paley emphasizes three distinguishing properties lacked by the former and possessed by the latter. In this paper I will...

Existence of God Literature Review

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Paley’s Watchmaker: an Evaluation

4 pages / 1671 words

When considering the idea of a divine creator one might consider arguments made by analogy, as William Paley does in his work Natural Theology, as indications of such a creator’s existence. Paley constructs an argument by analogy by relating the universe to an intricate mechanical...

Book Review Existence of God

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Nausea: a Realization of Existence

4 pages / 1919 words

Philosophers of all ages have had to come to terms with the existence of God. If God exists then ideas of philosophy such as determinism and a perfect ideal of existence are concepts which can be effectively discussed. However, if there is no God, then...

Existence of God Existentialism Literature Review

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God's Love and Human Suffering in Bhagavad Gita and Revelation of Love

1 page / 1611 words

In the year 1373 A.D., thirty-year-old Lady Julian lay on her deathbed in Norwich, England, after suffering for weeks from an unknown illness (Julian VII). Around the year 3100 B.C., the war of Mahabharata broke out in India, leaving villages in devastation and the people...

Bhagavad Gita God Suffering

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Edwards' Explanation of The Nature of God's Wrath

1 page / 1704 words

In 1742, Jonathan Edwards undertook the task of crafting a sermon that would be powerful in the eyes of both believers and unbelievers. The result exists today as his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” The sermon differs from traditional sermons both...

Christian Worldview God

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The Theory of Theodicy as Portrayed in The Book of Job and The Animation South Park

2 pages / 931 words

The presumption of a benevolent and omnipotent God makes the existence of evil problematic. This dilemma, known as theodicy, is often used to prove the lack of a God. The Book of Job as well as the South Park episode “Cartmanland” explore this theme, but...

Drama God Literature Review

280

The "Aye" of George Eliot’s Adam Bede: Christian Ethics Without God

5 pages / 2396 words

The greatest recent event — that “God is dead,” that the belief in the Christian God has ceased to be believable — is… cast[ing] its shadows over Europe. For the few, at lease, whose eyes….are strong and sensitive enough for this spectacle… What must collapse...

God Literature Review

281

Does God Exist

3 pages / 1223 words

The existence of God has been a big subject in philosophy and efforts to prove or disprove his existence have been taking place since the dawn of time. Notable philosophers such as Rene Descartes, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and William Paley have all conceived arguments to...

Existence of God God

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The Ontological, Cosmological, and Teleological Theories of The Existence of God

3 pages / 1220 words

Conclusion The existence of God has been a big subject in philosophy and efforts to prove or disprove his existence have been taking place since the dawn of time. Notable philosophers such as Rene Descartes, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and William Paley have all conceived arguments...

Existence Existence of God Meaning of Life

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Adam, Eve and The Serpent as The Beginning of Sins

3 pages / 1474 words

The doctrine of creation is not an ambiguous aspect of the Bible. The first four chapters of Genesis contain the primary biblical information on creation; therefore, they provide the basis of the biblical doctrine. This seemingly straightforward portion of the Bible, however, has for several...

Adam and Eve Bible Sin

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A Comparison into The Themes of Reputation and Chastisy in a Streetcar Named Desire and The Duchess of Malfi

4 pages / 1790 words

In Webster’s Jacobean revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi, and Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, written in 1947, both men consider the themes of chastity and the effect chastity has on the main female characters’ reputation within society. Both are widows, but Blanche is desperate...

A Streetcar Named Desire Chastity The Duchess of Malfi